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London - British lawmakers say that police must stop
stealing the identities of dead children to build aliases for undercover
operations, calling the practice abhorrent.

In a report published Friday, lawmakers called for an
overhaul of regulations covering undercover operations, which have been
engulfed by scandal following the collapse of a high-profile case involving a
police spy in 2011.

It has since emerged that undercover officers had sexual
relationships with the female activists they were watching, and that one had
even fathered a child while on the job.

Earlier this month the Guardian newspaper said some
undercover officers had stolen the identities of dead children to help fill out
their back stories.

The House of Commons' Home Affairs Select Committee said
the practice was "ghoulish" and "must never occur again”.

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